Today, at the President's press conference, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Arturo Herrera Guitérrez, the Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer Varela and the President of the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions ( AMIS), Sofía Belmar Berumen, presented the Solidarity Coverage to Support the Health Sector, which consists of life insurance from insurance companies to provide financial protection to the families of public sector health personnel free of charge.

The beneficiaries of this support will be the relatives of 1.6 million public sector health workers: doctors, residents, nurses, nursing interns, nursing aides, professional and technical personnel, stretcher-bearers, mayors and laborers, who have died from the COVID-19, when treating patients with this disease.

In the event of death due to the direct cause of said disease, the insurers undertake to grant 50 thousand pesos to relatives of the aforementioned staff (spouse or, in case of no-show, their children or their parents, if the former do not show up) . This protection will be retroactive and will be valid from April 1 to August 31, 2020.

In order for family members to have access to this benefit, they must present: death certificate and proof issued by the Ministry of Health that establishes that the deceased was designated to care for patients COVID-19, and that the cause of death was said disease.